UIS Faculty On Strike
Tenured and tenure-track professors at the University of Illinois Springfield are on strike starting today. Nearly 170 professors belong to the union that will take to the picket line this morning.
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Automatic Voter Registration; The Tylenol Murders; The 21st Turns One Year Old
On the 21st: Voting rights advocates are trying to build support for an automatic voter registration bill. Plus, the story of how seven people in Chicago were killed by Tylenol that had been poisoned - and a brief reflection on our one year anniversary with Illinois Public Media CEO Moss Bresnahan.
As Budget Fight Hobbles Downstate Mass Transit, Legislators Move To Help
The state budget impasse has left Illinois months behind in payment to downstate mass transit agencies. That’s led to cuts in service from Kankakee to Jacksonville. Now lawmakers are looking to remove them from the fight.
ACA Event To Show Stories Behind Numbers
You’ve heard all kinds of numbers related to the Affordable Care Act. The number of people gaining health insurance coverage. The increasing cost of premiums and deductibles. But behind all those numbers are the stories of real people and how the ACA has affected them.
Illinois Issues: How Republican Efforts To Toss Out Obamacare Might Affect This State
The roughly one million Illinoisans to gain insurance care through the ACA have had an impact on the way health care is delivered in the state. Kristy Kennedy looks at how a repeal of the legislation could affect them, and everyone else in Illinois.